he joins us live and begins our team coverage on storm watch? sonoma county. >> reporter: we're up here in northern park off 101 this morning, not much coming down as we speak. you can see if you look here across the parking lot, the ground is kind of wet here, and so clearly we had a cell that just moved through this area not that long ago. the road's slightly wet this morning, and of course that means you want to take it easy out there as you head out to work this morning. this will be the first significant rain in about two months here in the pay area, and we're expecting -- bay area and we're expecting maybe a half inch or so over the next couple of days. it is badly needed. they're hoping for a wet winter to ensure there doesn't have to be rationing next year. water agencies are ready for the rainfall. this past year has been a dry one. it was one of the driest calendar year on record in the bay area. although meteorologists measure rain from july to july and by that standard things don't look good. >> our rainfall year started july 1st. we